Santana Draper

Santana McAdoo Draper began the passion for the arts acting on the theatre's stage. He also began teaching himself to draw at age 4. By 10 years old Santana regularly performed a "9 show run" stage production and formed his now highly successful apparel company, paper toy® by Santana Draper. Santana knew he would create art and showed promise as a self-taught visual artist and actor. After booking several commercials, Santana would land his first taste of film acting with an appearance in Director's Quentin Tarantino's Blockbuster, Django Unchained, then Santana, would later work on HBO's highly acclaimed Boardwalk Empire. Santana continued to prefect his craft and landed the role of Travis Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. In the fall of 2012, the world was introduced to then 10 year old Santana Draper's art inspired apparel collection simply named paper toy® by Santana Draper. Santana's other television and movie credits include young Lionel Richie in "Oprah Present's Master Class"; Prep School Student on "Gotham"; and Science Kid in "The Fantastic Four". Santana is the consummate performer whether it is acting on stage, film or displaying his works of art on canvas in art exhibitions in fine art galleries; he enjoys creating works of art for your enjoyment. Santana's guiding light is his parents Tony and Natalie. Santana is African decent specifically the Bahamas, Madagascar along with a strong southeastern Louisiana influence.